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Is1862 Land Grant College

Numeric indicator showing whether the vendor’s site is associated with an 1862 Land Grant College. It captures a specific education-related classification within Vendor Site Details and is typically stored as a coded yes/no value rather than free text.

Family: Other Transaction Award
Category: Vendor Site Details
Data Type: numeric
Semantic Type: attribute
Mapping: flattened_fpds_xml_field
AI Confidence: high

Variable Overview

FPDS Query Variable
content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfEducationalEntity__is1862LandGrantCollege
Title
Is1862 Land Grant College
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/typeOfEducationalEntity/is1862LandGrantCollege
Description
Numeric indicator showing whether the vendor’s site is associated with an 1862 Land Grant College. It captures a specific education-related classification within Vendor Site Details and is typically stored as a coded yes/no value rather than free text.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts identify awards involving a particular class of higher-education institutions that may be relevant to academic partnerships, research capacity, or education-sector vendor profiling. It supports segmentation of other transaction awards by institutional type for policy review, spend analysis, and recipient characterization.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
38,894

FPDS Compare

FPDS Query Variable
content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfEducationalEntity__is1862LandGrantCollege
FPDS XML Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/typeOfEducationalEntity/is1862LandGrantCollege
Mapping Type
flattened_fpds_xml_field
Comparison Summary
FPDS Query flattens the original nested FPDS XML path 'OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/typeOfEducationalEntity/is1862LandGrantCollege' into the SQL-ready variable 'content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfEducationalEntity__is1862LandGrantCollege'.

Use Cases

  • Dictionary lookup and field explanation
  • SQL filtering and grouping
  • Analytical reporting and reusable query building
  • Contractor profiling and competitor analysis

Common Usage

  • Filter awards associated with 1862 Land Grant Colleges
  • Group vendors by higher-education institution subtype
  • Support segmentation of education-related procurement and OT awards

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming 0 always means missing rather than a valid coded response
  • Using the field as a text label instead of a numeric flag

Query Guidance

Use the field as a boolean-style filter after confirming coding conventions in the source data, for example `WHERE is1862LandGrantCollege = 1` for affirmative records. If the dataset uses multiple coded states, join or inspect adjacent educational-entity fields and avoid comparing to descriptive text.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfEducationalEntity__is1862LandGrantCollege AS is1862_land_grant_college
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfEducationalEntity__is1862LandGrantCollege IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Aggregate total

SELECT
    sum(content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfEducationalEntity__is1862LandGrantCollege) AS total_value
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfEducationalEntity__is1862LandGrantCollege IS NOT NULL

Distribution overview

SELECT
    min(content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfEducationalEntity__is1862LandGrantCollege) AS min_value,
    avg(content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfEducationalEntity__is1862LandGrantCollege) AS avg_value,
    max(content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfEducationalEntity__is1862LandGrantCollege) AS max_value,
    count() AS record_count
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfEducationalEntity__is1862LandGrantCollege IS NOT NULL

Each dictionary item includes SQL-ready examples generated alongside the variable metadata, allowing immediate use in FPDS Query for filtering, aggregation, and analysis.